Peau (Skin)

Another beau livre with contemporary poems by a young poet and friend of artists. So five artists wrought etchings for twenty “painted words.” In mine I depended heavily on the “acid accident,” gazed at, interpreted and consolidated by one and two more color plates. Peau seemed to ask for lateral tensions, a sense of stretched layers. Nuage was more lyrical, a dance.

     –from Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! A Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist’s Illustrated Books and Prints, 1942-1991, New York: The New York Public Library, 1992, p. 91.